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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 11h

As an extremist anti-gay Catholic time-travelled from the distant past of the ALP , surely he won't object to an independent check of his phone history?

stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 20h

David Pocock asks Don Farrell some serious questions about why the govt has not implemented an important recommendation from the #RobodebtRC.
Farrell caught playing on his phone, not even paying attention.🙄 Pocock hasn’t the patience to try again & moves on. #Estimates

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 11h

Just watched an Insta excerpt of a podcast interview with a man who says he 'got very close to doing the wrong thing' then says it's not in his nature to want 'younger, smarter, hotter, whatever' than his wife and oh. my. lordy. the comments section.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 12h

Wombats’ whiskery noses help them snuffle for food, navigate burrows and sense friend or foe.

Whiskers for warrens: why wombats have such whiskery snouts

theconversation.com

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

The disrespect to Sarah Krasnostein & Chloe Hooper! Literary version of Daily Mail celeb culture. 'Helen flaunted her semi-colons during Brunswick fashion week'. (Alt faulty: Guardian headline says 'Mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner'.) www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Erin Patterson mushroom murders inspire new book by Helen Garner

Co-written with Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein, The Mushroom Tapes is inspired by their experience attending the headline-grabbing trial earlier this year

www.theguardian.com

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

All patients have a right to know if someone calling themselves a surgeon doesn't have a medical degree, and podiatrists don't. Turf war maybe, but people shouldn't be misled into being operated on by people without a medical degree or extra surgical qualifications, then shocked when they find out.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

WTF. You shouldn't be allowed to do surgery at all without BEING a surgeon. One of these 'surgical podiatrists' tried to make a very elderly relative living alone with dementia agree to expensive surgery on both feet at the same time. (She just needed orthotics). www.theage.com.au/healthcare/s...

Podiatric surgeons to be stripped of title amid confusion

Health ministers have agreed to force podiatric surgeons to rename after a review found widespread confusion over their ability to perform invasive foot surgery without a medical degree.

www.theage.com.au

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

These arseholes steal your stuff and then tell you to 'opt out' of being burgled. 'Promises more granular control'? (What even is the point of words?) Promises a gravel sandwich, more like. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

OpenAI promises more ‘granular control’ to copyright owners after Sora 2 generates videos of popular characters

Company behind the AI video app says it will work with rights holders to ‘block characters from Sora at their request’

www.theguardian.com

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Lordy, I know. Good on you. Very difficult not to just go and live in a backyard cubby with skinks at the mo. Choice made easier by not having a backyard cubby. (Where the skinks are is anyone's guess.)

Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Not my intention to diminish culpability, I assure you - IMO dog's breakfast-y, when it comes to describing research, is the equivalent of a gauntlet slap to the face. I'd also like people to read the Australian report itself as it lays out its case brilliantly.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

A golden thread. #JillyCooper
#bonkbusters #books

Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · Oct 18

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · Aug 22

File this away in the 'probably nothing' section! DEWR Secretary Natalie James, who commissioned this report, was employed by Deloitte so recently I took this screenshot of her (defunct) employee page in March 📸

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

I bet they've fired somebody for this instead of having a blanket ban on AI, encouraging talking to real people, giving employees enough time and training, rewarding non-toady thinking & hiring people who might have gone to a public school & know someone on Centrelink with no holiday house.

Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 3d

#BREAKING 🚨 Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report into mutual obligations issues.

Fake quotes from Federal Court case that ended Robodebt deleted from new report in Friday DEWR dump.

📰 AFR

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HEADLINE: Deloitte to refund government, admits AI errors in $440k report

Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement.

A new version of the report for the Department of Workplace Relations (DEWR) was quietly uploaded to the department’s website on Friday, ahead of a long weekend across much of Australia. It features more than a dozen deletions of nonexistent references and footnotes, a rewritten reference list, and corrections to multiple typographic errors.

(photo of Deloitte Australia HQ) Deloitte Australia has made almost $25 million worth of deals with the Department of Workplace Relations since 2021. Photographer Dion Georgopoulos

The first version of the report, about the IT system used to automate penalties in the welfare system such as pauses on the dole, was published in July. Less than a month later, Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.

At the time, Rudge speculated that the errors may have been caused by what is known as “hallucinations” by generative AI. This is where the technology responds to user queries by inventing references and quotes. Deloitte declined to comment.

The incident is embarrassing for Deloitte as it earns a growing part of its $US70.5 billion ($107 billion) in annual global revenue by providing advice and training clients and executives about AI. The firm also boasts about its widespread use of the technology within its global operations, while emphasising the need to always have humans review any output of AI.

SUBHEADING: Deleted references, footnotes

The revised report has deleted a dozen references to two nonexistent reports by Professor Lisa Burton Crawford, a law professor at the University of Sydney, that were included in the first version. Two references to a nonexistent report by Professor Björn Regnell, of Lund University in Sweden, were also deleted in the new report.

Also deleted was a made up reference to a court decision in a leading robo-debt case, Deanna Amato v Commonwealth.

The new report has also deleted a reference to “Justice Davis” (a misspelling of Justice Jennifer Davies) and the made-up quote from the nonexistent paragraphs 25 and 26 in the judgement: “The burden rests on the decision-maker to be satisfied on the evidence that the debt is owed. A person’s statutory entitlements cannot lawfully be reduced based on an assumption unsupported by evidence.”

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Sandy, are they ... wearing teeny sunglasses?

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

This is so factual & clearly-explained: how & why the thoughtful, evidence-based Australian approach to #trans & #nonbinary kids & teens works. It exposes the UK Cass report as very dog's breakfast-y indeed & outlines a much better way than the UK & US Govt adoption of anti-trans nastiness.

UnicornsRockUK @unicornsrockuk.bsky.social · 2d

Well Australia is seeing the Cass Review for what it is - a political sham!
www.mja.com.au/journal/2025...

Cass Review does not guide care for trans young people

Good medicine is guided by the values of the patient, not those of a clinician, politician or commentator. The Cass Review, lacking expertise and compromised by implicit stigma and misinformation, doe...

www.mja.com.au

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 2d

In English, the claim they have not mistreated any of the flotilla crew. In Hebrew, they admit to brutalising them. Australian citizens are telling DFAT they are being tortured, DFAT and the government have said nothing. Makes you wonder, does Albo put Israel head of Australians?

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

You could use a search engine to find out how to avoid a paywall but people who write should get paid for their work.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

Can you read it in a Tom Jones outfit?

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 2d

This might work if you look like that woman. Otherwise, 5-word phrases to employ before scarpering if you are in danger of trouble include:
Oh HI! How ARE you!
Good on you for sharing.
About three thirty I reckon.
I'm a big Angels fan.
Wo oh oh oh ohhhh (to the tune of The Voice)

CNBC @cnbc.com · 3d

To shut down rude behavior instantly, try a simple yet powerful five-word response.

Use this 5-word phrase when someone is rude to you—it's like 'holding up a mirror,' says public speaking expert

When we encounter a rude person, our first instinct might be to fire back with a snarky comment. But that's not the right move, says public speaking expert John Bowe. Here's the perfect response to instantly shut down rude behavior.

cnb.cx

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for your advice: I will try to slow down. I'm sorry you lost your sister, and I wish you well.

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 6d

Josh Crowley (sp?) (@jdcrowley) on twitter: "If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct."

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Coal & gas are cooking us

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Aussie Rules had elements of Marn Grook, Caid & Rugby, all known to my great great uncle Tom Wills & his cousin Henry Colden Harrison. The 1859 rules written at the pub have no starting ball-up, drop or bounce, but do describe an out-of-bounds boundary throw-in. Most rules have morphed since then.

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, 'no witnesses' was the only comforting thing. Well, and that I haven't got a mesh-pattern imprint on my forehead. #smallmercies

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 3d

Slight headache & minor whiplash from smashing forehead into a steel mesh security door in the dark last night. Was I on an international jewllery heist? No. Going back inside from putting the washing out. In an area 3m by 1.5. Because I forgot the door was there. #genius

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

$200k to hang out with dogs. amazing

IG gabriel.desanti, barkandburn

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